Saturday, 11 February 2012

My stand on K-12 Education system

A warm welcome to all present. As we all know Department of
Education had implemented a new curriculum called K-12 education
system under the administration of P-Noy which I guess is very
crucial step of his administration. Today I Jaspreet Sohal will discourse
about what K-12 Education system has in store for us. The K+12 System will basically include the universal
kindergarten, 6 years of elementary, 4 years of junior high

school with
an additional 2 years for senior high school. This program is a product
of Globalization actually which
was proposed by DepEd to improve the quality of education and graduates of
Philippines.

According to the survey of World Bank Philippines had highest
youth unemployment rate. The ultimate target of K-12 would be to reduce
the youth employment rate .The two years of senior high school would provide time for students to consolidate acquired academic
skills and competencies. The curriculum will allow specializations in
science and technology, music and arts, agriculture andmost importantly, the
system aims to fully enhance and develop the students in order for them to be
well-prepared especially in emotional and cognitive aspects. Through this,
graduates will be able to face the pressures of their future workplaces and the
high school graduates can also pursue their education abroad.

As we all know that Philippine's largest export is its OFW’s,
the manpower itself. There are occurrences that Filipino citizens
abroad would want to continue their education abroad but often get rejected
because of the lacking two years. The K-12 system will help vanish
the disappointment and Filipinos instead of only sticking to labor
force can also become foreign students abroad.

The lower middle class of our society will
definitely be benefited because their children can
join labor force after they graduate their school but the
only trade off would be the additional two years.K-12 education
system will not bring the qualitative education but will also match our education
system with the global standards of education .These additional two years can
bring wonders to our economy the GDP will rise, unemployment will decrease and
there would be numerous opportunities for students. I think this is the time
for us to support the decision of government rather than criticizing
it because according to Albert Einstein "Education is what remains
after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."